One more anagram
Charles Simeon = “Sims” each loner
Making the nickname for his young Cambridge followers into a verb, “to Sim,” this anagram indicates that Simeon, something of a maladjusted loner himself, loved to gather folks together in bonds of fellowship and edification. He felt no Christian–and especially no Christian minister–could grow and mature (from milk to meat, to use the biblical image) without this sort of mutual admonition and apprenticeship.
If I am correct–and I don’t know his biography yet as well as I need to–Simeon’s efforts contributed to what eventually became the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. And I can attest that this principle of fellowship is deeply and productively embedded in the culture of that parachurch ministry.
Or . . .
I, charmless one
This was how he tended to describe himself, though others disagreed!
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